Functional Programming in the enterprise

June 3rd 2013, from 18:30 to 20:00

Seminar

Programming

A Wired reader wrote…

This is a general yet opinionated introductory talk as to why functional programming is a good fit for all institutions, including the heavyweights. It's based on a couple of case studies of introducing Clojure to an investment bank and an large newspaper group, and this talk may feature some live coding.

Jon Pither has been working with Java for over 13 years and introduced Clojure to a large investment bank where he led a team of developers on a large mission-critical Clojure project